Your Life at Rest

We support our people to lead a happy and healthy lifestyle empowering them to achieve their personal best at home and professionally. Your personal wellbeing, and career goals, are important to us. Recognising these goals, individual needs and lifestyles, we’ve designed a wide range of benefits to ensure our people flourish:

At Rest we offer:

• Rest Excellence Awards - our great reward and recognition program recognised for excellence
• An extensive health and wellbeing program with benefits including discounts on gym membership, fitness equipment, spa vouchers, flights, shopping and much more
• Mental health & wellness support, including RUOK day, Employee Assistance Programs and other initiatives to improve wellbeing
• Flexibility and leave
• Income Protection Insurance
• Learning and Development support - grow your career!

As long-standing advocates of flexible working arrangements, we support our people in balancing their work, family and personal responsibilities to work from home blended with time in the office.

We also offer a variety of leave options:

• Purchase leave scheme
• Gender neutral parental and adoption leave; including 16 weeks paid leave, flexible return to work options and five days of pre-natal leave for medical appointments
• Superannuation paid during parental leave for the first 12 months
• Family and domestic violence leave and support
• Community Service Leave
• Emergency Services Leave
• Defence Reserve and Armed Forces Leave

At Rest, a defining feature of our culture is our commitment to continual learning through our ‘Grow Your Own Way’ philosophy, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities, and incorporating a holistic approach to learning from doing, observing others, and formal learning. We also offer an Accelerator program which identifies and develops high potential individuals.

To support our commitment to growing and developing our people, we also offer:

• financial support for approved tertiary, vocational and non-award courses
• two days paid study leave per subject per semester and membership to professional associations where required
• continuous development planning, including on the job and formal training

Health & wellbeing

We help you take care of you! We offer fitness programs, courses and competitions focused on changing personal habits, developing mindfulness and supporting your physical and mental health. This includes our 12 steps to wellbeing initiative designed to help get our people get up and moving and taking time away from work.